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- Philip_Choy abstract "Philip P. Choy is a retired architect and renowned historian of Chinese American studies. He is the author of San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture (2012), Canton Footprints: Sacramento’s Chinese Legacy (2007), and The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese (1994). Choy has been a community activist known for landmark preservation in San Francisco.Choy was born in San Francisco on December 17, 1926. He grew up in San Francisco Chinatown and he was the fourth in an family of five children with three older sisters and a younger brother.During high school, Choy enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He attended San Francisco City College during World War II until he was called to active duty for basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi. There, in the south, he decided to become an activist after witnessing first-hand the influence of segregation.After the war, he earned a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley and was involved in residential and commercial design for 50 years. During the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, Choy became president of the Chinese Historical Society of America and in 1969, he teamed up with historian Him Mark Lai to teach the first-ever Chinese American history course at San Francisco State University in 1969.Although retired from teaching, Choy is still an adjunct professor in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. He has served on the San Francisco Landmark Advisory Board, on the California State Historical Resources Commission from June 2001 to June 2005, five times as President of the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA), and currently as an emeritus CHSA board member. He is also a recipient of the San Francisco State University President’s Medal in 2005, the Silver SPUR Awards in 2009, and the Oscar Lewis Award for Western History in 2011.Choy has devoted his career to researching, preserving, advocating, and disseminating Chinese American history. Choy was the first to make a video documentary series on Chinese American history for public broadcasting called the “Gum Saan Haak” (Travelers to Gold Mountain, 1971-1974). He also publicly challenged the organizers of the 1969 Transcontinental Railroad Centennial at Promontory Point to acknowledge the Chinese participation in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, thus reclaiming recognition for Chinese railroad workers whose contributions and sacrifices had been neglected for a century. In 1969, Choy as a guest speaker and historian spoke on the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Transcontinental Railroad. He also advocated the preservation of the Angel Island Immigration Station and in 1993, he wrote the case study to nominate it to the National Register of Historic Places, because of its historical significance as a place where many Chinese immigrants were detained and it also offers a close look at important history lessons about the early Chinese pioneers.".
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- Philip_Choy comment "Philip P. Choy is a retired architect and renowned historian of Chinese American studies. He is the author of San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture (2012), Canton Footprints: Sacramento’s Chinese Legacy (2007), and The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese (1994). Choy has been a community activist known for landmark preservation in San Francisco.Choy was born in San Francisco on December 17, 1926.".
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